Spooky Scary Skeletons by Andrew Gold
Spooky Scary Skeletons is a Halloween novelty song written, produced and performed by Andrew Gold, the American singer-songwriter known for Lonely Boy and Thank You for Being a Friend. It is an original 1996 release, not a traditional tune passed down through generations; the exact year it was written is not verified. The song is one of nine originals on Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music, released on 20 August 1996. Gold produced, mixed and sang it and played all of the instruments himself, with a xylophone standing in for rattling bones. The liner notes describe the Halloween Howls project as filling what he saw as a gap in fun original Halloween songs, a statement about the album rather than about this song specifically, and the track runs about two minutes and eight seconds. That original carries a prominent xylophone, and no comparative hierarchy against the other instruments is claimed. The catalogued Musescore score is a fan piano arrangement, so its keyboard texture and any simplifications are choices made for the reduction and should not be read back into Gold's recording.
About Spooky Scary Skeletons
Spooky Scary Skeletons is a Halloween novelty song written, produced and performed by Andrew Gold, the American singer-songwriter known for Lonely Boy and Thank You for Being a Friend. It is an original 1996 release, not a traditional tune passed down through generations; the exact year it was written is not verified.
The song is one of nine originals on Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music, released on 20 August 1996. Gold produced, mixed and sang it and played all of the instruments himself, with a xylophone standing in for rattling bones. The liner notes describe the Halloween Howls project as filling what he saw as a gap in fun original Halloween songs, a statement about the album rather than about this song specifically, and the track runs about two minutes and eight seconds.
That original carries a prominent xylophone, and no comparative hierarchy against the other instruments is claimed. The catalogued Musescore score is a fan piano arrangement, so its keyboard texture and any simplifications are choices made for the reduction and should not be read back into Gold's recording.